During the 80’s I was aged between 10 and 19, the 80’s are therefore still fresh in my mind. At the time we had popstars that cared more about their hair and their drugs than they did about music, it was the beginnings of the cult of celebrity people like Amanda and bruiser de cadenet, music was at its lowest, waiting for a reaction that thankfully came from the likes of the smiths and later on nirvana. I lived through the 80’s and I hated them, the politics, the music, the fashions, and the celebrities, all of it overly vacuous and ugly. The people lived the dream and thatcher provided the politics.

I see so many parallels with now, and not just the clothes harking back to the uglier fashions, but peoples eagerness to be rich at the expense of your fellow man, blairs politics mirror a lot of thatchers more people friendly policies and musicians seem more concerned with image or drugs than they do with music.

19 year olds who have a tiny memory of the more embarrassing elements of the 80’s now revere them as icons, chuck Norris, transformers, david hasslehoff, I am sure due to its kitsch value, but when does the joke end and the laughing stop.

I was going to post this as a thread but it had no point other than a rant, and as I turned 36 yesterday it made me look to be a grumpy old man.

I hated the 80’s and I will be glad when this revival of it has passed.